Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 2
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
Cairo, Egyptian Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 2 |
| Current Location |
magazine |
| Publication Permission Status |
(unknown) |
| Publication Status |
published |
Origin / Provenance
| Ancient Provenance Site |
Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high |
| Ancient Provenance District |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
Object
| Object Type |
ostracon |
| Color |
pottery, red |
| Range of Preservation |
complete |
| State of Preservation |
Complete. |
| Mounting |
(non [ostracon]) |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
convex (outside) |
| Inks and Pigments |
carbon ink monochrome black |
| Range of Preservation (Text) |
complete |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
Complete. |
| Script, Primary |
Middle Demotic |
| Language, Primary |
Ptolemaic Demotic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Partly unsteady and elusive handwriting. |
| Comments on Text Layout |
Very wide line pitch. The text is placed onto the upper half of the surface of the potsherd, with broad lateral margins and on top. The lower half remains uninscribed. |
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recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
2 |
0 |
| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
0 |
| Line Lenght (in mm) |
22 |
0 |
| Column Height (in mm) |
30 |
0 |
| Height of Line / Letter |
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| Line Distance |
22 x 30 |
0 |
Text Content
| Modern Title |
receipt for the price of oil |
| Ancient Archives |
private archive | inidividual tax payer |
| Ancient Scribe(s) of Text |
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| Text Types |
- documentary | receipt | tax receipt
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| Summary of Content |
Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, is confirmed by Petemestous, son of Patous, of having paid the price of oil for the 20th regnal year Thoth, in an amount of ⅓ kite. |
| Location of Composition |
Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high) |
| Multilingualism |
Monolingual
Script = Language |
| Gender |
Man |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | Thus has brought Pachnoumis, son of Phibis, ⅓ (silver) kite (for) the price of oil |
2 | | (for) the 20th regnal year, Thoth. Issued by Petemestous, son of Patous.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 6715 |
man |
Pachnoumis, son of Phibis |
Pa-H̱nm sꜢ PꜢ-hbꜢ |
pre-Coptic Egyptian |
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Dates
| RulerID |
Regnal Year |
MonthID |
Day Date of the Text |
Gregorian Date |
dating_comment |
| Ptolemaios III Euergetes |
20 |
Thoth |
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-228 October 15 BCE -228 November 13 BCE |
Dating by content. Dating by prosopography. Internal dating, without name of the ruler; |
Literature
| DatasetID |
307628 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
81188 |
| Author |
Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography) |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 307628 (= Ostr. Cairo EM SR 12465 / 2), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography). |
